# Treasure Islands ## Metadata * Author: [Nicholas Shaxson](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B004OA6420 * ISBN: 0230105017 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OA6420 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420) ## Highlights The Whore of the Republic, which became a best seller in France. — location: [186](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=186) ^ref-27374 --- Jason Sharman, an Australian academic, checked how easy it was to set up secrecy structures, using the Internet and those seedy offshore advertisements that infest the back pages of business publications and airline magazines. In his report published in 2009 — location: [562](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=562) ^ref-20312 --- Offshore Magic Circle? — location: [588](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=588) ^ref-39510 --- personal holding corporations — location: [854](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=854) ^ref-60855 --- “transfer pricing” principle used by the banana companies that I described — location: [925](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=925) ^ref-53791 --- Corporation of London is — location: [1469](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=1469) ^ref-3668 --- The notorious “merchant of death” Viktor Bout, inspiration for the character played by Nicholas Cage in the Hollywood film Lord of War, alleged arms runner to the Taliban and other murderous organizations around the globe, operated through businesses in Texas, Delaware, and Florida. — location: [2505](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=2505) ^ref-39579 --- Asian heroin warlord Khun Sa. — location: [2757](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=2757) ^ref-27598 --- Henry’s 2003 book Blood Bankers explores — location: [2917](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=2917) ^ref-48924 --- Joel Bakan in his best-selling book The Corporation. — location: [3286](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=3286) ^ref-26696 --- “Why Do I Have to Deal with People Like Dan Mitchell?”21 the University of California, Berkeley, economist Brad deLong — location: [3291](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=3291) ^ref-57415 --- painstakingly researched book The Spirit Level attests, — location: [3415](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=3415) ^ref-58172 --- “shadow banking system”—a vast, unregulated economic terrain containing all manner of Special Purpose Entities (SPEs, also known as shadow banks) that — location: [4419](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4419) ^ref-15901 --- New York Times in 2009 described as “a Wall Street version of ‘Flip This House.’” — location: [4512](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4512) ^ref-24665 --- The City of London Corporation—the offshore island floating partly free from Britain’s people and its democratic system—must be abolished and submerged into a unified and fully democratic London. — location: [4632](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4632) ^ref-42109 --- Valerie Lecasble and Airy Routier, Forages en eau profonde (Paris: Grasset, 1998). — location: [4788](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4788) ^ref-53991 --- John Lanchester, “Bravo l’artiste,” review of Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard, by Neil Chenoweth, London Review of Books, February 5, 2004. — location: [4798](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4798) ^ref-23977 --- John W. Diamond, “International Tax Avoidance and Evasion,” National Tax Journal, December 1, 2009. — location: [4840](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4840) ^ref-32057 --- conference in the City of London in 1995 was told that the industry objective was to shift offshore the majority of financial assets owned by the world’s high-net-worth individuals by the end of the decade. See Steven Hiatt, ed., A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2007), p. 55. — location: [4910](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4910) ^ref-19797 --- see “Time to Bury the Oxford Report,” Tax Justice Network — location: [4973](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4973) ^ref-54191 --- Dev Kar, “The Alpha, but Whither the Omega, of the Greek Crisis?” Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development blog, May — location: [4973](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=4973) ^ref-10215 --- Paul Tucker, “Shadow Banking, Financing Markets and Financial Stability,” remarks by Mr Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England, at a Bernie Gerald Cantor (BGC) Partners Seminar, London, January 21, 2010, http://www.bis.org/review/r100126d.pdf. 20.From Biondi interview and David S. Swayze — location: [5760](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B004OA6420&location=5760) ^ref-22477 ---